XiArt

Give an idea something you can direct

A prompt is a useful beginning. Sometimes the next decision is visual: move the subject to the edge, lower the camera, leave room for a headline, or make the foreground carry more weight. XiArt takes its foundation from ArtCraft, which combines a layered 2D canvas with a 3D staging space and provider-connected image and video generation. You can develop the composition before asking a model to interpret it. These are documented upstream workflows; XiArt's own integration and service access remain under development. Upstream capabilities.

XiArt is for illustrators, art directors and small creative teams exploring alternatives before committing to a finished asset. A promising generated image still needs your judgment about composition, factual details and whether it matches the brief. No claim of exact character consistency, superior image quality or guaranteed model access is made here.

Three briefs, three different ways to begin

A puppet theatre's next stage. Build a rough scene from backdrop images and movable props, then test a low camera against a higher view. Use a posed reference to explore the relationship between performer and scenery. The purpose is a discussion board for the director, rather than a construction drawing or a guarantee of the final staging.

A botanical garden's pollinator panel. Start with licensed photographs, separate a subject from its background and assemble the surrounding flowers as layers. Mask the area that needs an illustrative transition. Review plant and insect details with the garden's educators before the image becomes public interpretation material.

A luggage designer's concept review. Place a reference object in a spatial scene and compare a clean silhouette with a busier travel backdrop. Try a prompted revision to the visual treatment. If video services are available, explore movement from the chosen still. This is a concept workflow, not dimensional product validation.

These are suggested creative exercises, not bundled sample files or evidence that a XiArt release has passed them. The underlying composition, posing, background-removal and generation workflows are described in the checked ArtCraft README.

A workflow that starts with the composition

1. Set the brief. Decide what the image must communicate and gather references you have permission to use.
2. Build the visual guide. Arrange layers and drawing on the 2D canvas, or stage images and meshes in 3D. Choose the pose and viewpoint before requesting a render.
3. Explore through a connected model. Use a text prompt, a guided image edit or an image-to-video request when a compatible service is available. Model availability and charges belong to that service.
4. Refine and inspect. Change an area with a mask, revise the composition and review the result. The upstream scene editor can download a PNG snapshot; generation outputs and supported controls vary by provider.

Evidence: canvas implementation, staging workflow, PNG snapshot export.

What XiKey™ is adding

Arabic belongs in the working interface. An Arabic UI and one-click EN ⇄ ع switch are in progress for XiArt. The switch already exists in the XiPhoto pilot; it is not a shipped XiArt feature. The Arabic font dialog, grouped by writing style, and XiKey splash, About and dialogs are also in progress. Shared kashida, tashkeel, Arabic digit and Hijri-date tools are being developed for image/text workflows; XiArt integration remains unfinished.

Classic and Modern layouts with Retina scaling are planned. Sandboxed add-ons managed through XiLauncher are planned, while the signed update channel is in progress. XiArt uses a different upstream toolkit from the egui products, so a shared plan does not prove that their add-on mechanism already works here. Status source: XiKey status, checked 2026-10-14.

Alpha: a clear invitation to explore

XiKey Alpha is free today. XiArt is a planned product being integrated into that Alpha program; no downloadable XiKey package, minimum hardware specification or authenticated live generation route was verified for this page. Upstream documents Windows and macOS downloads and Linux source development, which does not establish XiKey installer availability. Platform evidence, source setup.

The app's announced Beta price is $19/year or $2.49/month. Cloud generation, if offered, is billed separately as credits. App pricing comes from XiKey pricing, checked 2026-10-14; it is not a promise of free inference or access to every upstream model. The upstream catalog itself labels some entries disabled or restricted, and removing dependence on hosted services remains an upstream roadmap item.

What we checked

Research date: 2026-10-14. ArtCraft source configuration reports 0.42.0, at commit d4e4ac69bbd93d237eaf5d0260bc6a5ff3a5e373. The latest published release checked was artcraft-v0.41.0, published September 26, 2026; its release note only points to downloadable assets. Feature evidence comes from the pinned README, documentation and source rather than treating the unreleased source version as a XiKey release. Code licences were checked in LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE and NOTICE. No provider logos or bundled third-party sample assets are used on this page.

XiArt is based on ArtCraft by the ArtCraft team (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

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